National Affairs: Fogarty's Dream Boat

The world had been such a noisy place since V.J day that the Irisheven
in the U.S.had hardly been able to get in a word of protest against
England. But last month, New York's Irish-born Mayor William O'Dwyer
got some stirring intelligence from home: Sir Basil Brooke, the British
Prime Minister of partitioned Northern Ireland, had 1) banned Saint
Patrick's Day parades among his constituents, and 2) announced that he
would soon visit the U.S.

Bill O'Dwyer did not miss the cue. "Brooke," he cried, "is one foreign
dignitary who will not be welcomed at City Hall. If by any chance...